Supporters of five Harlem men who were wrongly convicted of assault and
rape of a woman jogging in a New York park celebrate after a judge
dismissed their convictions December 19. The men, who were teenagers at
the time, were found guilty of the 1989 crime despite lack of physical
evidence or witnesses in a hysterical climate whipped up by the
capitalist media. The youth "confessed" after being subjected to
coercive police tactics. They all served out the sentences they
received. Sharonne Salaam, middle, whose son Yusef spent six years in
prison, said, "Nobody can give back the time he spent behind bars." "I'm
very angry," added Delores Wise (not pictured), mother of Kharey Wise,
who served 11 years.
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